wane

IPA: wˈeɪn

A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
(literary) The end of a period.
(woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
(Scotland, slang) A child.
(chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.

(intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
(intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
(intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
(intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
(intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
(transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.

Examples of "wane" in Sentences

Shvat Affective Disorder is on the wane, which is good.
Sad to kind of wane away as it did the last few years …
There is no evidence that E.D. Texas has, or ever will, "wane" without Congressional action.
On the wane are the heavy borrowing and complex securities that financiers embraced in recent years.
Even the Liberal Democrats, traditionally strong on the environment, have seen their lead on green issues "wane" at points during the year.
Sweaty semi-naked yobs with southern cross tatts, flag capes and gang mentality: bigger prob, but hopefully on the wane from a couple of years ago.
And that the lobby can find a resurgence at a time when crime rates in the largest cities are spectacularly on the wane is another American paradox.
Now, we are expecting a few hours from now those winds to kind of wane off a little bit but we are expecting them to be picking back up for tomorrow.
The latest data to suggest the recession may be on the wane was the April payrolls report, which showed fewer jobs were lost last month than in March.
Almost as unsettling as Paul Kennedy's thesis that American power is on the wane is his failure to point out that the Keynesian spending policies and socialist priorities of the "rather wonderful, charismatic and highly intelligent" fellow who just became President will almost certainly hasten any decline.